Gulls & Terns in Faroe Islands
Our list for Faroe Islands has 9 gulls & terns recorded regularly there: 5 residents, 2 summer visitors and 2 winter visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Faroe Islands in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 9, most common first
European Herring GullLarus argentatusResidentCommon55–67 cmRecorded all year
Great Black-backed GullLarus marinusResidentCommon64–79 cmRecorded all year
Arctic TernSterna paradisaeaSummer visitorCommon33–39 cmRegularly May–Sep
Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscusSummer visitorCommon52–64 cmRegularly Mar–Sep
Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundusResidentCommon38–44 cmRecorded all year
KittiwakeRissa tridactylaResidentCommon37–41 cmRecorded all year
Common GullLarus canusResidentCommon40–46 cmRecorded all year
Iceland GullLarus glaucoidesWinter visitorCommon52–60 cmRegularly Oct–May
Glaucous GullLarus hyperboreusWinter visitorCommon62–68 cmRegularly Oct–May
Smallest to largest
Length, cmData: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made